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CAL BAPTIST: Another wall to fill

As a cheerleader does a backflip in the foreground during a game last March, the banners celebrating the school's NAIA triumphs line one wall of Van Dyne Gym. (Staff photo: Terry Pierson)

Coming up in Thursday's Press-Enterprise (and on PE.com Wednesday afternoon), we'll discuss Cal Baptist's return to full postseason competition, now that the school's NCAA Division II transition is complete. The men's and women's cross country teams compete in the Division II West Regional this weekend in Spokane, and the women's soccer team -- the particular subject of The Column -- has qualified for NCAA tournament play as well.

Which brings to mind something that then-assistant athletic director Mo Roberson (now at Concordia University in Irvine) said two summers ago, after the school's last season of NAIA competition had concluded with 21 national championships, all commemorated on the south wall of Van Dyne Gym (see above.)

Roberson pointed at the banner-less north side of the Lancers' gym on that June morning in 2011 and said:Â "I guess that will have to be our NCAA wall."

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